Tech Report Reviews the Fatal1ty AA8XE
"Unquestionably the best Pentium 4 overclocking board"

January 21, 2005 – The reviews for the Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard are pouring in, and the latest comes from the folks from Tech Report. Putting the Fatal1ty AA8XE through their series of rigorous tests, they discovered that this particular motherboard has the muscle to take your Pentium 4 CPU to its very limits. In fact, Tech Report noted that the Fatal1ty AA8XE is "…unquestionably the best Pentium 4 overclocking board."

The strong hardware features of the Fatal1ty AA8XE made a strong impression on Tech Report: "It's the little things that really separate high-end boards from the rest of the field, and ABIT has certainly paid plenty of attention to detail with the Fatal1ty AA8XE. While hardly a "little" thing, at least in size, the most obvious extra on the AA8XE is the massive OTES cooler. A pair of temperature-controlled fans exhaust warm air from around the board's CPU socket and power circuitry, which should help with stability when overclocking."

Of course, the Fatal1ty AA8XE gives you the power to reach for some mind-bending performance numbers: "The Fatal1ty-AA8XE's hardware clearly caters to overclocking enthusiasts, but can the BIOS keep up? Yes. And then some. The AA8XE's BIOS offers a staggering assortment of overclocking options, including support for front-side bus speeds up to 400MHz. A total of five different CPU:DRAM bus dividers provide plenty of flexibility for different memory speeds, and the BIOS also offers arbitrary PCI and PCI-E bus speed control. In addition to a wide range of bus options, the AA8XE's BIOS also delivers a generous collection of voltage tweaking options, including support for CPU voltages as high as 1.925V."

Tech Report was also impressed with ABIT's exclusive µGuru technology: "The BIOS also features a mind-numbing array of monitoring features thanks to the board's µGuru chip. µGuru allows users to monitor and set alarm or shutdown conditions based on temperatures, fan speeds, and even voltages. No other motherboard manufacturer even comes close to offering this level of hardware monitoring, and if you're shy about poking around in the BIOS, ABIT offers identical monitoring functionality in Windows with its ABIT EQ software. Many of the BIOS's overclocking and tweaking options are also available via ABIT's µGuru software for Windows."

The verdict? "With plenty of OTES cooling, a decent cable bundle, a tweak-filled BIOS, and µGuru delivering the best hardware monitoring around, the Fatal1ty AA8XE is definitely a premium board worthy of any Pentium 4 overclocking enthusiast…At the end of the day, the Fatal1ty AA8XE is unquestionably the best Pentium 4 overclocking board to grace our labs. If you're looking to push a Pentium 4 to its limits, the board should definitely be at the top of your list."

For the full review, go to:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q1/abit-aa8xe/index.x?pg=1

For more information on the Fatal1ty AA8XE, go here:
http://www.abit.com.tw/upload/english/fatal1ty-aa8xe/index-en.htm

 

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